Adam Richard Sandler was born September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York, to Judith (Levine), a teacher at a nursery school, and Stanley Sandler, an electrical engineer. He is of Russian Jewish descent. - IMDb Mini Biography By: A. Nonymous

His characters often have a penchant for a particular brand name food (i.e. Snack Packs, Subway, Popeye's chicken, etc.)

Often plays a character with a bad temper, or a short fuse

Frequently appears in Rob Schneider films either with a large role or a small cameo.

Frequently uses 1980s music for the soundtrack of his movies

His characters frequently wear licensed professional sports team apparel, based on the locale of the film.

In the films he writes the female characters often have names that begin with the letter V (Veronica Vaughn, Virginia Vennet, Vicki Vallencurt, Vanessa, Valerie Veran)

Trivia*

His comedy album "Stan and Judy's Kid" set a record for most albums sold by a comedy album in its first week. It debuted at #16 on the Billboard charts. All three of his previous comedy albums have gone platinum.

His beloved dog, Meatball, who also has a section on Adam's official website with photos and videos, passed away due to a heart attack, at 4 years old. He was the son of Mr. Beefy, the talking dog in Little Nicky (2000). Meatball was best "man" at Sandler's wedding and was dressed in a tux, with a yarmulka on his head. [January 27 2004].

Enjoys filming at locations near a gym so he can play basketball on his breaks. He plays once or twice a day.

Chris Rock dedicated Chris Rock: Never Scared (2004), the recording of a stand-up performance he did at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., to the memory of three people: his father, Julius Rock; Monteria Ivey, comic radio personality and TV announcer; and Stan Sandler, Adam's father.

He often has big name casts in his movies. This is arguably due to the high box office of his movies and the fact that he is generally known to be a nice, friendly man to work with.

Personal Quotes*

[after getting laser eye surgery] Now I realize how ugly I am.

I never had a speech from my father [saying], "This is what you must do or shouldn't do", but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out, you get there. He just made us feel comfortable and respectful to other families, my mother also . . . part of my father having a temper led to me developing a sense of humor to calm the old man down. That kind of sense of humor.

I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, "One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech". That wasn't on my mind. I want to just do the best work I can do.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

[on how he became involved in Click (2006)] If it's something I feel I can do alright, I like being in those, and some that I think [Rob Schneider] and [David Spade] would be funnier at than me, I tell them to do it. I don't have any clue how we decide. There's this thing, this "Click", actually, one of my friends called me up, my partner told me about this idea that Steve Koren had. Steve Koren, by the way, the guy who wrote it with Mark O'Keefe, Steve Koren I've known since I was 22. He was a page at Saturday Night Live(1975). He would answer the phones and he'd give us phone messages and then he'd give you a message and he'd say, 'Oh yeah. I wrote a joke.' And he'd tell you the joke and you go, "Hey. Steve Koren's pretty funny" and then all of a sudden he's [written] Como Dios (2003) and this thing and he's a giant writer and he's just a great guy. And anyway, they told me about the premise of the movie and asked if I was interested in that and I didn't even read the script, I just said, "Yeah. That's a huge idea, it sounds great". That's how I decided to do this script, just off three sentences about what the movie's about, I knew it could be awesome.